Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASH B U RI AN 25 The ball shot forward, over the heads of the secondary and tertiary and settled into the hands of a Lindenlea end who proceeded to gallop some sixty yards for a touchdown. Lindenlea converted to make the final score 11-11. A disappointed team left the field and a disappointed coach kicked the bucket. ASHBURY vs STANSTEAD THE Ashbury 1st twelve walked over a weaker Stanstead squad to the tune of 21-6. The game, played on Ashbury ' s home-field, proved a one-sided game from the start. John Gill scored his first touchdown on a twenty-yard pass from Scott Price. The convert was blocked. Stanstead was unable to re- taliate, and Ashbury stayed in the Stanstead zone for the rest of the quarter. In the second quarter Andy Pritchard raced around the right end for a 2 5 -yard gain and a touchdown. A few minutes later Scott Price went over again, on a quarterback sneak from the 5 -yard line. Neither of these scores was converted. The third quarter saw no score, and both teams fought back and forth at centre field. As the final quarter got under way Pritchard threw a 40-yard pass to John Gill who took it in the clear and ran a few yards for his second major in the game. Don Brown booted the extra point totalling Ashbury with 21. Stanstead now started closing the distance to the Ashbury line by a number of plunges. Finally LeBerne, a halfback from Stanstead, carried the oval over for Stanstead ' s only major. LeBerne also kicked a placement for the extra point. The Stanstead crew fought clean and hard but they proved no match for their faster, harder-hitting opponents. OLD BOYS vs ASHBURY THIS game, lacking in formality and strained friendship, as it did, proved a source of humour to all spectators and to both benches. Needless to say, the Old Boys lost 12-0 but there may have been a few bad moments on the Ashbury bench. The first half of the tussle proved scoreless as both teams see- sawed back and forth and succeeded in nothing save getting each other ' s signals mixed. In the third quarter, however, Ashbury found herself, and after plunging down to the Old Boys ' 5-yard line. Price went over on a quarterback sneak. Scott also converted it by a drop-kick.

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24 THE ASHBURIAN ASHBURY vs LISGAR ON November 9th, our First Team tied Lisgar Seniors at 12-12. The Ashbury first twelve completely out-played their shghtly heavier opponents in the first quarter, and when the teams changed ends the home team was 7-1 in the lead. Pritchard kicked a single from the thirty-five in the first few minutes of play. The count went up to seven when Scott Price went over for a major from the five and then booted the convert by a drop-kick. In the second stanza Paul Hudson put the Lisgarites back in the ball game when he intercepted an Ashbury pass on the latter ' s 2 5 -yard stripe and ran for a touchdown, which he converted. Near the end of the quarter he hoofed a placement from the Ashbury 15 to put Lisgar in the lead, 9-7. However, John Gill scored on a double reverse from five yards out to give Ashbury a 12-9 lead, but this score was cancelled soon after, when Hudson again connected with a placement, to tie up the ball game, 12-12. ASHBURY vs LINDENLEA Ashbury and Lindenlea played to an eleven all tie in a supposed jCjl. easy-win for Ashbury. A good stroke of luck befell the Linden- lea squad in the last minute of play but it certainly gave the Ashbury twelve a bitter pill to swallow. The first quarter opened with Ashbury driving down to their opponents fifteen-yard line when Hector A4clnnes swung round the right end for the first major. The attempted convert failed and Linden- lea took possession from the kick-off. Sparked by Bob Juneau, the Lindenlea group slowly pushed Ashbury back and Juneau finally took the ball over on a plunge over centre. In the second quarter the two teams fought it out in centre field until Ashbury manoeuvred into a thirty-five yard single from Andy Pritchard ' s boot. The third quarter saw Ashbury driving down the field with a 6-5 point margin. Goaded on by Andy Pritchard the ball was carried to the Lindenlea fifteen. Pritchard rammed over right middle, to make the score read 11-5, in favour of Ashbury. The fourth quarter started much the same as the second. It stayed that way until the one-minute flag was up. Then it happened. Lindenlea had possession of the ball on their own forty-yard line. Juneau took the ball from the centre and faded back, looking for a receiver. The ends hesitated and then went in after him, but they were too late.

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26 THE ASHBURIAN The final quarter started in much the same way and ended up by Don Brown scoring for Ashbury on a reverse from 15 yards out. Brown then tossed a pass to Larry Wood, who stepped across for the convert. Although the Old Boys didn ' t manage to score, they put up a stiff show of resistance, and the showers after the game were appreci- ated by both teams. ASHBURY vs FISHER PARK HIGH SCHOOL First Game THIS YEAR, for the first time, Ashbury ' s second team, the B-division from the first field, had the opportunity of matching themselves against the squad from Fisher Park High School, which school and team, we must admit, was unknown to most of us. Both games were played on our grounds. The first was played Saturday, October 29, and the second a little over a week later on Tuesday, November 1. Ashbury was victorious on both occasions. In the first game both teams applied pressure right from the start but before the first half was over Foulkes had completed a well-earned touchdown for Ashbury as a result of successfully receiving a long pass from Brown, who threw from his 45 -yard line. Brown ' s convert also was successful, putting the score at 6-0. In the second half, things were more evenly matched. No further score was made, and although Ashbury resorted mostly to passes, and many yards were gained through the air, little distance was covered on old terra firma . Mclnnes and Burke were also outstanding in their achievement of gaining yards for Ashbury in that they made the most of their ground plays and pass-completions, respectively. Final score— Ashbury 6, Fisher Park 0. ASHBURY vs FISHER PARK HIGH SCHOOL Second Game THIS GAME was even more decisive in Ashbury ' s favour, although the same spirit prevailed on both sides. Brown made two touch- downs and also managed to execute a rouge during the first half of the game. A sensational play was performed on the last play of the game. When Ashbury was in possession of the ball, Mclnnes received a very long pass from Brown, and he lost no time in getting over the touch-line before any of the Fisher Park players could tackle him. The game ended right after this, and so Ashbury had three touchdowns and a rouge to its credit. Strangely enough, no converts were success- ful, so the score remained at 16-0.